As exposed in audio recordings, hospital executives in Arizona admitted meeting several times a week to lower standards of care, with coordinated restrictions on visitation rights. Most COVID-19 patients’ families are deliberately kept in the dark about what is really being done to their loved ones.
The combination that enables this tragic and avoidable loss of hundreds of thousands of lives includes (1) The CARES Act, which provides hospitals with bonus incentive payments for all things related to COVID-19 (testing, diagnosing, admitting to hospital, use of remdesivir and ventilators, reporting COVID-19 deaths, and vaccinations) and (2) waivers of customary and long-standing patient rights by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
In 2020, the Texas Hospital Association submitted requests for waivers to CMS. According to Texas attorney Jerri Ward, “CMS has granted ‘waivers’ of federal law regarding patient rights. Specifically, CMS purports to allow hospitals to violate the rights of patients or their surrogates with regard to medical record access, to have patient visitation, and to be free from seclusion.” She notes that “rights do not come from the hospital or CMS and cannot be waived, as that is the antithesis of a ‘right.’ The purported waivers are meant to isolate and gain total control over the patient and to deny patient and patient’s decision-maker the ability to exercise informed consent.”
I seen it done. Two of them, right next door is about a month. I called the mat wagon for the 2nd on, myself. They started to waltz right in without gloves or mask until I told them this was the same place where the 31-year-old dropped dead in the front yard, lungs destroyed by it, while just barely sick 3 days earlier, about a month before. They thanked me gloved, gowned, masked and goggled up before going in to collect her. Sure am glad the rest of the family moved out after her. I have seen several dead, dying and fkd up people in my life (mostly not working for me), but at least if they're going to be stupid and not call for help until too late, the family is not calling me to see what I can do or check on them anymore.
